Copy, letter from J W Smith to Sir Cecil Spring-Rice Informs Spring-Rice of experiments by the Dept of Agriculture in Washington that produced a potato bread as nutritious and longer lasting than ordinary bread -- also points out the possibility of bread from maize, substituting for the poor potato crop -- notes that obtaining bushels of corn meal to replace wheat would keep down the price of wheat until 'Russia's store of wheat, rye and oats [is] released' -- notes that dates are also plentiful and nutritious -- suggests that the Secretary of Agriculture could furnish data. 16 October 1916